[v1.6] Inferno RSS Forum Feeds Technology

This hack was made purely by request, and the fact IPB will have a similar system as default functionality, i wouldn't like them to have a upper hand to vbulletin

v1.5 Updates:
- Auto detect RSS settings system
- Forum stats rebuilt correctly (last post info)

v1.6 Updates:
- Various bug fixes

Description:
This once added to your forum allows you to connect to any RSS feed you desire, once set up the system will automatically post data from the RSS feed into threads within a specified forum.

Previews are available at the bottom, and an FAQ is built into the admin controls since I know not everyone will understand how to set up the options. Also an example to use a BBC UK News rss feed is below

Example BBC UK News Feed:
Feed Name: BBC UK News
Feed Location: http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonl...t_page/rss.xml
Feed Prefix: [BBC UK News]
Feed From User: Assign users username of your own choice
Feed Forum: Choose a forum you want threads to be posted into
Feed Read Direction: Newest First
Parent RSS Tag Name: channel
Items RSS Tag Name: item
Thread Title RSS Tag Name: title
Thread Post RSS Construct:

[b]Published:[/b] {XML[pubDate]}

{XML[description]}
[url={XML[link]}]Read More...[/url]

Note: After adding a new feed i suggest clicking update for that feed, this will manually update that singular feed specified, the cron job included will automatically update all feeds, best not to have it update them all from the start otherwise it could execute a lot of queries. Further more I highly recommend you do not have lots of feeds unless your server can with-stand it.

Enjoy

- Zero Tolerance

[Darth Gill]

OK, so I set up the cron job exactly like the instructions told me to...

Add the following cron job:
Title: RSS Feeds Update
Day of the Week: *
Day of the Month: *
Hour: *
Minute: 1 - - -
Log Entries: Up to you
Filename: ./includes/cron/cron_ffrss.php

And I get a fatal error...

Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /home/bkraft/public_html/forums/includes/functions.php on line 4240

[Chris_D]

I just installed it for testing purposes and it works fine. Would be much better when it automatically detects the RSS settings though

Nice work still

[Cyburbia]

Great script - really. Unfortunately, my users HATE it. :disappointed: Why? Some have the "new posts" url bookmarked, and now they're seeing RSS feed posts mixed in there. I wonder if there's a way to set up a subforum where new posts, basically the RSS feeds, won't show up in the "new posts" search.

[sowen]

Originally Posted by Cyburbia

...

I''ve got a request that one thing be changed - "RSS Forum Feeds" control panel lins should be BELOW "vBulletin Options", not at the very top.

In the cpnav_ffrss.xml file change:

<navgroup text="RSS Forum Feeds" hr="true">

to:

<navgroup text="RSS Forum Feeds" displayorder="10" hr="true">

that should mve the option set down below the Vb Options

[Gizmo5h1t3]

deffo gotta be considered for HOTM this one....

[Darth Gill]

Did anyone get the cron job to work for them?

[XtremeOffroad]

Originally Posted by Darth Gill

Did anyone get the cron job to work for them?

I received the same error today when I set up the cron job, Any Ideas???

[john1744]

I set up a Scheduled Task (I assume this is a cron job in vB) and a cron job in my server. IGN and Cnet.com's RSS feeds work fine. However Gamespot, IMDB, Wired.com and Reuters keep showing no updates. I'm pretty sure they update their news frequently though...

[Zero Tolerance]

Okay common error, running a task in scheduled task manager returns an error, this is due to vBulletin software itself, it's the same for -any- cron job when run via the CP manually, look on vbulletin.com bug tracker for more info on that.

Vizionz, its all dependant really on how much information the feed contains, if the feed contains a whole story then you can extract that, if it doesn't, then i'm afraid not.

People getting errors with bbc rss feeds? Seems to work fine on mine with no problems, i'll do a little more research into it

- Zero Tolerance

[Vizionz]

yeah people are ahead of the game. if you could grab all there news there would be no need for people to go to there websites.